Dragan's Aviation Corner - Information and pictures of air force and air defense units in Yugoslavia, in addition to other Yugoslavian aviation information.
Yugoslav Model Club - Information about and pictures of military vehicles and aircraft. An interesting article on the history of Yugoslav aviation with pictures.
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Military Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Military
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Military Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Military The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Military
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Military The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Military
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Military The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Military
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Military "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Military
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Military I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Military
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Military "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Military
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Military Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Military
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Military The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Military
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Military Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Military
